Tropescilloscope: Television Movie Index

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More Tropes Wicked Cultured Rule of Cool Mama Bear And the Adventure Continues Badass Bookworm Affably Evil You Have Failed Me Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Dirty Old Man All Men Are Perverts Insane Troll Logic Mood Whiplash Improbable Aiming Skills Sole Survivor Belligerent Sexual Tension Evil Counterpart Take a Third Option Adapted Out As Long as It Sounds Foreign Eiffel Tower Effect Corrupt Corporate Executive Car Fu Face–Heel Turn Due to the Dead Translation Convention Bad "Bad Acting" Jerkass Take That! Imagine Spot Fat Bastard Race Lift Nothing Is Scarier Obfuscating Stupidity "Awesome McCool" Name Hope Spot Actually Pretty Funny Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Neck Lift The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Badass Normal Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Motor Mouth Married to the Job Death by Irony Expository Hairstyle Change Product Placement Batman Gambit Peek-a-Boo Corpse Faux Affably Evil The Alleged Car Bald of Evil May–December Romance The Mafia How We Got Here My Greatest Failure Thriller Berserk Button Corpsing Bond One-Liner Room Full of Crazy Comically Missing the Point Very Loosely Based on a True Story Took a Level in Jerkass Video Credits Kick the Son of a Bitch Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Roaring Rampage of Revenge Sports Stories Victoria's Secret Compartment Five-Man Band Retcon Well-Intentioned Extremist Our Zombies Are Different As the Good Book Says... Monumental Damage Expy Cloudcuckoolander True Companions Badass Grandpa Dramatic Gun Cock Love at First Sight Becoming the Mask Spiritual Successor Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Dwindling Party Drugs Are Bad Cruel and Unusual Death Stalker with a Crush Wham Line Instant Death Bullet Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The Load Vomit Indiscretion Shot Brother–Sister Incest Not Even Bothering with the Accent Ship Tease Pragmatic Villainy Names to Run Away from Really Fast Distracted by the Sexy Brutal Honesty Psycho for Hire Calling the Old Man Out Bar Brawl Damsel in Distress Visual Pun Demoted to Extra Creator Cameo Horror Films Zombie Stories Those Two Bad Guys Mercy Kill Arch-Enemy War Is Hell Dramedy Overly Long Gag Hollywood Law Real Life Writes the Plot Arc Words Public Domain Feature Films Captain Obvious Dies Wide Open Author Appeal Half the Man He Used to Be Tagline Humans Are Bastards Retirony Cold-Blooded Torture No Name Given Mad Scientist Eureka Moment Armor-Piercing Question Dark and Troubled Past Adorkable Alpha Bitch A God Am I Made of Iron "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Animated Credits Opening Every Car Is a Pinto Canadian Movies All for Nothing Fingore Mystery and Detective Films This Is Gonna Suck Heroic Sacrifice World of Ham Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Vomit Discretion Shot Market-Based Title Black and Gray Morality Blatant Lies Call-Back Ambiguous Disorder Captain Ersatz Hollywood Darkness Dramatic Irony An Axe to Grind Accidental Misnaming Gory Discretion Shot And I Must Scream Broken Pedestal Spared by the Adaptation Cain and Abel Men Are the Expendable Gender Reality Is Unrealistic Dark Is Not Evil Stock Footage Camp Gay Shirtless Scene He Who Fights Monsters Mexican Standoff Cool Shades Empathic Environment Training Montage The X of Y Honor Before Reason Parental Neglect Artistic License – Biology Four-Temperament Ensemble Breaking the Fourth Wall Love Triangle More Dakka Shut Up, Hannibal! Break the Cutie Adaptation Dye-Job Kubrick Stare Heroic BSoD Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Japanese Films Cool Old Lady One Steve Limit The '50s Silent Movie "The Reason You Suck" Speech Animal Title Index Demonic Possession Made of Explodium Meaningful Background Event One-Word Title Black Best Friend Frame-Up Call-Forward Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Military and Warfare Films Everyone Has Standards The Oner Scenery Gorn Bland-Name Product An Arm and a Leg Aside Glance Sexy Discretion Shot Red Herring Blood from the Mouth The Un-Reveal Playing Gertrude Sequel Escalation Sir Swears-a-Lot Psychological Thriller Gainax Ending Costume Porn Rewatch Bonus Chase Scene Flipping the Bird Plucky Comic Relief Mistaken for Gay Happily Married Not So Stoic Evil Plan Revenge Papa Wolf Dirty Coward Hero Antagonist Knife Nut Air-Vent Passageway Authority Equals Asskicking Yandere Vitriolic Best Buds Punny Name Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Aluminum Christmas Trees Ironic Echo Australian Movies Abhorrent Admirer I Need a Freaking Drink Pimped-Out Dress Sacrificial Lion Annoying Younger Sibling Celebrity Paradox What Happened to the Mouse? Mythology Gag Slashed Throat Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Spanner in the Works Unusually Uninteresting Sight Exactly What It Says on the Tin Oh, Crap! Drill Sergeant Nasty Villain with Good Publicity Anyone Can Die Fourth Date Marriage Missing Mom Plot Hole Anti-Hero Dutch Angle I Did What I Had to Do Card-Carrying Villain Fire-Forged Friends Meaningful Echo Sinister Minister Rule of Three Dark Reprise Chekhov's Gunman Shown Their Work Kill It with Fire Continuity Nod The Quiet One Double Entendre Kids Are Cruel Small Name, Big Ego Big Bad Duumvirate Deal with the Devil Award-Bait Song My God, What Have I Done? Crucified Hero Shot Even Evil Has Standards Undying Loyalty Soft Glass Black Comedy Those Two Guys Blood Knight Stealth Pun Leaning on the Fourth Wall The Stoner Danny Peary Cult Movies List Foreshadowing I Have Your Wife I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Determinator Taking the Bullet Foregone Conclusion Loads and Loads of Characters Fatal Flaw Artistic License – History Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Catapult Nightmare Heel–Face Turn Bittersweet Ending Cluster F-Bomb Cool Car Adaptation Expansion Evil vs. Evil Sealed Evil in a Can It Can Think Bottomless Magazines He Knows Too Much Fish out of Water Eye Scream Auto Erotica The Power of Love Evil-Detecting Dog Adaptational Badass As Himself The Vamp Reality Has No Subtitles Antagonist Title Pragmatic Adaptation Only a Flesh Wound Smoking Is Cool Country Matters Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Offscreen Teleportation Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Riddle for the Ages Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Villain Opening Scene BFG Hong Kong Films Anguished Declaration of Love Here We Go Again! German Films Cool Guns Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Dressing as the Enemy Homage Mind Screw Slap-Slap-Kiss Insistent Terminology Bowdlerise Hooker with a Heart of Gold Fanservice Sequel Hook Rule of Symbolism The Cameo You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Asshole Victim Based on a True Story It's Personal Unreliable Narrator Evil Is Hammy Decoy Protagonist Hair-Trigger Temper Extreme Doormat Evil Is Petty Hoist by His Own Petard Defrosting Ice Queen Self-Deprecation Does Not Like Shoes Evil Laugh Those Wacky Nazis Worthy Opponent Creative Closing Credits Manic Pixie Dream Girl The Ghost No OSHA Compliance Protagonist Title Scenery Porn Kick the Dog Conspicuous CG Noodle Incident Let's Get Dangerous! Earn Your Happy Ending Logo Joke Police Brutality Dirty Cop Brick Joke Animal Motifs Curb-Stomp Battle Artistic License – Law Non-Indicative Name Mooks Spiteful Spit Famous Last Words No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Chekhov's Gun Serial Killer You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Eldritch Abomination Jerk with a Heart of Gold Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Big Guy Covers Always Lie Leave the Camera Running Up to Eleven Sci-Fi Horror Older Than They Look Unwitting Instigator of Doom Russian Films Throwing Your Sword Always Works Dark Action Girl The Starscream Camera Abuse Dying Moment of Awesome Would Hurt a Child Genre Savvy Pretty Little Headshots Fate Worse than Death Tranquil Fury Hidden Depths Fake Shemp Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Show Within a Show Action Girl Nice Hat Sanity Slippage Villain Song Adaptational Heroism Butt-Monkey Off with His Head! Big Fancy House A.I. Is a Crapshoot "Well Done, Son!" Guy Rated M for Manly Jitter Cam MacGuffin Word of God Action Genre Age Lift Jerk Jock Meet Cute Horror Comedy Mundane Made Awesome Chewing the Scenery Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Fiery Redhead For the Evulz Taking You with Me Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Offscreen Moment of Awesome Freeze-Frame Bonus Guns Akimbo Bavarian Fire Drill Race Against the Clock Tempting Fate Male Gaze The End... Or Is It? Recycled IN SPACE! Science Fiction Films Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Line-of-Sight Name Big Eater Book-Ends Heterosexual Life-Partners Greater-Scope Villain Grey and Gray Morality Would Hit a Girl Credits Gag The Hero French Films Historical-Domain Character Catch-Phrase Big Brother Instinct Important Haircut What the Hell, Hero? Cowboy Cop All There in the Script Moment Killer Jerkass Has a Point Immune to Bullets Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Hypocritical Humor The Sociopath All There in the Manual Mr. Exposition Actor Allusion Time Skip Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Framing Device Creepy Child Shout-Out Redshirt Army Same Language Dub Alliterative Name An Aesop Cat Scare Bloodless Carnage Knight Templar Pet the Dog The Bully timeperiod Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Exact Words Fainting Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The Ace Outrun the Fireball Dual Wielding Chiaroscuro Epic Fail Naked People Are Funny Amusing Injuries Re-Cut The Brute Anachronism Stew All Just a Dream Nice Guy The Hero Dies Man on Fire Lock and Load Montage Parental Substitute Adaptational Attractiveness The Alcoholic Gender Flip The Bad Guy Wins Star-Crossed Lovers Karma Houdini Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Parental Incest It Will Never Catch On Death by Adaptation Smug Snake Extremely Short Timespan Deadpan Snarker "Shaggy Dog" Story Composite Character Big "NO!" Truth in Television The '80s Index of Film Westerns Gorn Friend to All Children I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Defiant to the End Coming-of-Age Story Soundtrack Dissonance Christmas Movies Index Wounded Gazelle Gambit Works Set in World War II Central Theme Manly Tears Mugging the Monster Morality Pet Red Oni, Blue Oni Only in It for the Money Parental Abandonment In Medias Res Combat Pragmatist Left the Background Music On Title Drop Slasher Movie Daylight Horror Deus ex Machina '80s Hair Ripped from the Headlines Loophole Abuse Ambiguous Ending Deliberate Values Dissonance Accidental Murder Adults Are Useless Not Quite Dead Handicapped Badass Redemption Equals Death Femme Fatale The '90s Funny Foreigner Unresolved Sexual Tension The Musical Pretty in Mink The Film of the Book Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Refuge in Audacity Death by Sex B-Movie Silence Is Golden Only Sane Man Apocalypse How In the Back Chekhov's Skill Shell-Shocked Veteran She's Got Legs Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Our Vampires Are Different Dropped a Bridge on Him Green-Eyed Monster Hero of Another Story No Ending Trailers Always Spoil Film Series Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Dull Surprise Real Life Big Damn Heroes Sassy Black Woman Crazy Jealous Guy Henpecked Husband Wretched Hive Face Death with Dignity Epic Movie From Nobody to Nightmare Intrepid Reporter Ms. Fanservice A Father to His Men Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Disney Villain Death Fun with Acronyms Dissonant Serenity Anti-Villain Irony Running Gag Whole Plot Reference Genre Throwback Improbable Weapon User After the End Adult Fear Getting Crap Past the Radar Big Applesauce Vampire Fiction Agony of the Feet Serious Business Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Jump Scare Unspoken Plan Guarantee Does This Remind You of Anything? Mr. Fanservice Arranged Marriage Malevolent Masked Men Fanservice Extra Overprotective Dad Back from the Dead Interrupted Suicide Black Dude Dies First Affectionate Parody Major Injury Underreaction Fan Disservice Death Glare I'm a Humanitarian Disney Death N-Word Privileges Historical In-Joke The Stinger Stuff Blowing Up Obviously Evil Double-Meaning Title Evil Sounds Deep Early Installment Weirdness Wham Shot Final Girl The Smurfette Principle Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Unusual Euphemism Obstructive Bureaucrat Eyepatch of Power Bare Your Midriff Never Trust a Trailer You Killed My Father Crapsack World Groin Attack Psychopathic Manchild Properly Paranoid Establishing Character Moment One-Man Army Darkest Hour Cool Old Guy Historical Hero Upgrade Developing Doomed Characters Ominous Latin Chanting Ascended Extra Destination Defenestration Posthumous Character The Ditz Blackmail Body Horror Not What It Looks Like Neck Snap Children Are Innocent Only Known by Their Nickname Closed Circle Almost Kiss Funny Background Event Only One Name Adaptation Distillation Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Domestic Abuse Random Events Plot Martial Arts Movie Abusive Parents Dumb Blonde Bad Boss Death of a Child Black Comedy Rape The Dragon Red Right Hand The Stoic Pre-Asskicking One-Liner The Voiceless Villain Ball Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Author Avatar Deliberately Monochrome Your Cheating Heart Didn't Think This Through Implacable Man Shipper on Deck Bilingual Bonus Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism 20 Minutes into the Future Hate Sink Music Stories Freudian Excuse Rape as Drama Storming the Castle Put on a Bus Beard of Evil Red Eyes, Take Warning Ungrateful Bastard Pay Evil unto Evil Adaptation Name Change Contrived Coincidence Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Suspiciously Similar Substitute Failed a Spot Check Spell My Name with an "S" Red Shirt Enemy Mine A Date with Rosie Palms Retired Badass Eagleland Meaningful Name From Bad to Worse Get Out! The Cavalry Flashback Male Frontal Nudity Fantastic Racism What You Are in the Dark Scary Black Man Insult Backfire Rich Bitch Police are Useless Curse Cut Short Death Seeker Adaptational Villainy Suspiciously Specific Denial No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Crazy-Prepared There Is No Kill Like Overkill Drowning My Sorrows Bi the Way The Chick Last-Name Basis Slasher Smile The Lancer No Celebrities Were Harmed Faking the Dead Lampshade Hanging Diabolus ex Machina Cat Fight Early-Bird Cameo Not So Above It All Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Dogged Nice Guy Depraved Bisexual Maybe Ever After Drives Like Crazy The Reveal Did Not Get the Girl Brainless Beauty Bait-and-Switch Film Noir Index Italian Films Amoral Attorney Setting Update Never My Fault Facial Horror Pyrrhic Victory Driven to Suicide Straight Gay Make It Look Like an Accident Better to Die than Be Killed Biopic Tap on the Head Really Gets Around The Place Casting Gag Ass Shove Artistic License – Gun Safety Woman in White Super Strength Bury Your Gays Reasonable Authority Figure And Starring folderlabel Canon Foreigner Madness Mantra Toplessness from the Back As You Know Leitmotif Beta Couple Despair Event Horizon Genre Shift Paper-Thin Disguise Laughing Mad Daddy's Girl Stealth Hi/Bye Rasputinian Death Kill 'em All The '60s Ghost Fiction Awesome, but Impractical Gratuitous English Too Dumb to Live Break the Haughty Foil Badass Boast My Beloved Smother Took a Level in Badass The Faceless Bond Villain Stupidity La Résistance The Lost Lenore Disproportionate Retribution Disguised in Drag Villainous Breakdown Superhero Bullying a Dragon Beware the Nice Ones The Dog Bites Back Disappeared Dad Heel Realization Sadistic Choice Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Reckless Gun Usage The Smart Guy Suddenly SHOUTING! Bound and Gagged Woman Scorned Alas, Poor Villain Token Minority Light Is Not Good The Remake Vacation Films Lighter and Softer Betty and Veronica Downer Ending Naïve Newcomer It's All About Me No Antagonist Television Movie Index The Casanova Documentary Action Survivor Good Is Not Nice Rule of Funny Match Cut Shoot the Shaggy Dog Killed Mid-Sentence Ambiguously Gay Humiliation Conga Fatal Family Photo Fantasy Films The Chessmaster Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Romantic False Lead Bloodier and Gorier Grievous Bottley Harm The Dreaded Artistic License – Physics Darker and Edgier Once More, with Clarity! Large Ham For Want of a Nail Heroes Want Redheads Never Found the Body Scare Chord Stepford Smiler Intergenerational Friendship Badass in a Nice Suit Say My Name Not Using the "Z" Word Pre-Mortem One-Liner Bunny-Ears Lawyer In Name Only Together in Death Gone Horribly Right Not So Different Manchild Karmic Death She Cleans Up Nicely Off-into-the-Distance Ending All Girls Want Bad Boys Precision F-Strike Narrator Have a Gay Old Time Hypocrite O.O.C. Is Serious Business Novelization Politically Incorrect Villain Bloody Hilarious Babies Ever After Wrong Genre Savvy Guile Hero Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Be Careful What You Wish For Laser-Guided Karma Bring My Brown Pants Idiot Ball Gilligan Cut Totally Radical The '70s Anachronic Order Broken Bird Cassandra Truth Skewed Priorities British Films Beauty Is Never Tarnished Improvised Weapon Broken Aesop Department of Redundancy Department Artistic License – Military Reality Ensues Big Bad The Mole Gold Digger Informed Ability Bolivian Army Ending Artistic License – Geography Character Development The Atoner Manipulative Bastard Poor Communication Kills Big-Bad Ensemble Stylistic Suck Boom, Headshot! The Great Depression Film Noir Determinator aka: The Determinator Villain Protagonist NO INDOOR VOICE Historical Villain Upgrade Mighty Whitey Evil Brit Easily Forgiven Badass Longcoat A Minor Kidroduction Action Prologue Romantic Comedy Rousing Speech Attempted Rape Shower Scene Deconstruction Your Head A-Splode Advertised Extra Ax-Crazy Hell Is That Noise Needs Wiki Magic Love Punch-Clock Villain Twist Ending No-Sell